Misery Quotes

Famous Quotes on Misery

• "The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight. " —Cicero on Misery
• "Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a piece of orange-peel." —Charles Dickens on Misery
• "The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows." —George Eliot on Misery
• "Grim-visaged, comfortless despair." —Thomas Gray on Misery
• "There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples." —Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr on Misery
• "This, this is misery! the last, the worst, That man can feel." —Homer on Misery
• "That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery." —Richard Hooker on Misery
• "We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? " —Jean De La Fontaine on Misery
• "The child of misery, baptized in tears!" —John Langhorne on Misery
• "But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave." —John Milton on Misery
• "And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show." —Alexander Pope on Misery
• "Misery travels free through the whole world! " —Johann Christoph Von Schiller on Misery
• "Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men. " —Seneca on Misery
• "The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

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• "Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy, Kinsman to a grim and comfortless despair, And at her heels a huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures and foes to life?" —William Shakespeare on Misery
• "Meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones; And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds, Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses Were thinly scattered, to make up a show." —William Shakespeare on Misery
• "Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows." —William Shakespeare on Misery
• "No, misery makes sport to mock itself." —William Shakespeare on Misery
• "All of which misery I saw, part of which I was. " —Virgil Or Vergil on Misery
• "It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable." —George Eliot on Misery
• "Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends." —Erica Jong on Misery
• "The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope." —William Shakespeare on Misery
• "If misery loves company, misery has company enough." —Henry David Thoreau on Misery
• "Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery." —Francis Picabia on Misery
• "People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery." —Graham Greene on Misery
• "Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief." —C S Lewis on Misery
• "Hope is the physician of each misery." —Irish Proverb on Misery
• "There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples." —Oliver Wendell Holmes on Misery
• "Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so." —Jacopo Sannazaro on Misery
• "He that is down need fear no fall." —John Bunyan on Misery
• "Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later." —Kazi Shams on Misery
• "Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate." —Addison Mizner on Misery
• "Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb." —Josh Billings on Misery
• "A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer." —Joseph Addison on Misery
• "There is no greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand." —Dante on Misery

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